Project Name: Shadowing Project Credits:Pipo Tafel Project Brief Description: Discovered in childhood, our shadow fascinates us in our early years and goes with us invariably, and most of the times secretly, throughout the rest of our lives: everyday spectrum, doppelganger, trace of our living soul; neat but fragile, mysterious human negative on the verge of immateriality. 'SHADOWING' uses technology as a means to give back its visitors the opportunity to live again and dive into one of the most intense and purest moments of our childhood: the first encounter with our shadow. Carlos Fernández López, London, june 2011 The shadow as visual interface "When I enter the space I perceive my own shadow. It is visible in front of me as if there was a strong direct light source behind me. I walk some steps further in to see if the shadow follows my movements which it really does. I step on the platform and my shadow suddenly separates from me."The play with the own shadow correlates to Rudolf von Laban's credo that „everybody carries a dancer in himself“. The projection mirrors an immaterial body and an augmented self-perception to the dancer's insight. Without knowing and without being educated, the visitor - through playing with his interactive shadow - experiences, feels and choreographs movement. Playfulness and curiosity lies in all of us, everybody is a dancer. Project Most Representative Images:
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Project Credits: Pipo Tafel
Project Brief Description:
Discovered in childhood, our shadow fascinates us in our early years and goes with us invariably, and most of the times secretly, throughout the rest of our lives: everyday spectrum, doppelganger, trace of our living soul; neat but fragile, mysterious human negative on the verge of immateriality. 'SHADOWING' uses technology as a means to give back its visitors the opportunity to live again and dive into one of the most intense and purest moments of our childhood: the first encounter with our shadow. Carlos Fernández López, London, june 2011 The shadow as visual interface "When I enter the space I perceive my own shadow. It is visible in front of me as if there was a strong direct light source behind me. I walk some steps further in to see if the shadow follows my movements which it really does. I step on the platform and my shadow suddenly separates from me."The play with the own shadow correlates to Rudolf von Laban's credo that „everybody carries a dancer in himself“. The projection mirrors an immaterial body and an augmented self-perception to the dancer's insight. Without knowing and without being educated, the visitor - through playing with his interactive shadow - experiences, feels and choreographs movement. Playfulness and curiosity lies in all of us, everybody is a dancer.
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Relevant Web Addresses:
http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Die-Zunge-sieht-und-das-Auge-schmeckt-Ausstellung-im-Neuen-Museum-Weimar-2020572074
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